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Not to mention: - What assurances does the Department of Defense have that North Koreas orbital death ray will not cook the white house at any moment.
by WJW 6y ago
Not to mention:
- What assurances does the Department of Defense have that North Koreas orbital death ray will not cook the white house at any moment.
- henearkr 6y agoWell obviously what I said only stands in non-dictatorship. I don't care to comment on the dictatorship case, that's bad anyway if they launch any satellite at all, we'll never know what's in, so that's not an actionable subject of discussion (except, shoot down all of their spacecrafts).
- vkou 6y agoDemocracies have throughout history conducted plenty of assassinations, and started wars of aggression. Some of them have even killed a few hundred thousand people with firebombing and nuclear weapons. Any country with ASW capabilities would find it prudent to shoot this thing down, because there is no defense from it being used against it - with exactly zero warning.
- henearkr 6y agoYes but again, the distinction is that, in democracies, such evil projects can only be conducted under military secret. So, any project conducted for the sake of energy production, i.e. in the civilian realm, would have no chance to include these elements of aggression. Heck, in democracies, even for military projects that are too evil, there are whistleblowers. Especially in high-tech projects, because among scientists there is quite a bit this kind of mindset.